Fonfara v. Reapportionment Commission

The principal issue in this case is whether this court should overturn a plan for reapportionment of the state house of representatives without a prima facie showing that the plan manifests an improper reconciliation of the federal constitutional principle of one person, one vote, with the state constitutional principle of town integrity. The petitioners, who are citizens and electors of the state, have invoked the original jurisdiction conferred upon this court by article third, § 6 (d) of the Connecticut constitution, as amended, “to correct any error made in [the commission’s] plan of…